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Manager - Group Legal (FES)
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Manager - Group Legal (FES)
Date: 12 Nov 2025
Location:
Mumbai - Worli, Mumbai - Worli, IN
Company: Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd
Duties and Responsibilities
The key expectation from the role is to act as in-house counsel delivering high quality, comprehensive, authoritative legal service. Key responsibilities include
- Partnering with Business for Legal Services
- Providing a comprehensive and high quality in-house legal service, across a broad range of legal issues to internal customers within the organization
- Ensuring all customer activities are in line with legal requirements and meets specifications within the organization and risks are mitigated appropriately.
- Developing and maintaining excellent relationships with internal customers (business leaders),
- Promoting the value of the legal function support for contract drafting, negotiation and closure.
- Preparation and negotiation of contracts, and leading in managing and resolving contractual disputes and other contentious issues, to a satisfactory conclusion, if they occur.
- Proactive engagement with business teams
- Understand the spoken and unspoken needs and provide timely advice.
- Identification of the issues while advising and then introducing processes and monitoring mechanism.
- Developing and implementing best practices from other similar industries
- Monitoring and supervising the implementation of the best practices such as standardisation of the documents, awareness sessions etc.
Skills Required
- Excellent legal skills including drafting and negotiating contracts and strategic management of contractual disputes.
- Capability of detailed, in-depth analysis of legal documents and of work situations that have a legal dimension.
- Ability to turn around enquiries quickly and tackle issues at short notice.
- Excellent written and oral communications, including the ability to work effectively with a range of people and the ability to deliver advice in a clear and user-friendly way.
- High influencing and negotiation skills
- A ‘can do’ attitude with a readiness to ‘roll your sleeves up’ and get down to tackling and resolving issues and producing excellent outcomes.
Education and Experience
Essential
- Qualified lawyer – LLM/LLB
- Experience of working as a legal practitioner for 6 to 8 years. Preferred experience in manufacturing industry
Desirable
- Experience as an in-house lawyer or similar position.
- Sound working knowledge of Indian business environment and related legalities.
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